Software giant Microsoft Corp Chief Financial Officer John Connors on Wednesday reaffirmed the company's financial guidance for the current fiscal year 2002, and the company said it still expects a boost from its new Windows XP (news - web sites) operating system in the fall. Connors, speaking to investors at an SG Cowen Technology Conference in Boston, said the company's expectations remain as they were in mid-July, when Microsoft reported fourth-quarter 2001 results. ``We'd anticipated for fiscal year '02 that we would achieve revenue of between $28.8 (billion) and $29.6 billion and that our operating income would be up about 8 percent and that our earnings per share would come in the range of $1.91 to $1.95,'' he said.
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